AB 52 is a bill to give the California Insurance Commissioner the right to reject or modify health insurance premium increases. Many other states have given their Insurance Commissioners this responsibility, and it is only the incredible power of the California Health Insurance Industry that's keeping California from doing the same. (This authority is already granted for other insurance products in California!)
Call your Assemblyperson now -- locate him or her by zipcode and tell them you want him or her to support AB 52.
According to an aide in the sponsoring Assemblyman Mike Feuer's office, the bill will be voted on today and has "a chance" of passage.
With absurd rate increases of 30% or more in the past year by many of Califoria's health insurers, you'd think this would be a slam dunk. But filthy lucre tempting legislators and bogus arguments
Call your Assemblyperson now -- locate him or her by zipcode and tell them you want him or her to support AB 52.
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has been for some time now, and links to some editorials in favor of the legislation on his Facebook page:
La Opinion
Mercury News
LA Times
Call your Assemblyperson now -- locate him or her by zipcode and tell them you want him or her to support AB 52.
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